Smallpools called their shot with “Dreaming” – since their 2013 debut single, the trio’s experience has been nothing short of surreal. They’ve played festivals from Lollapalooza to Summerfest, earned RIAA gold and platinum plaques, held their own in arenas and late night TV and, along with their peers and collaborators like Grouplove, Walk the Moon, Twenty One Pilots, developed the sound that developed the alt pop scene. After 2021’s self-released Life in a Simulation felt like the only logical reaction the early COVID era, it’s only natural that Smallpools are searching for what’s truly authentic on Ghost Town Road. The majority of the record was written and recorded at Kamerman’s house in Los Angeles, with collaborations from colin creeV of Third Eye Blind and Mitchy Collins of lovelytheband. The results are rife with everything that fans have come to expect from Smallpools – arena-ready hooks, impeccable production, music that crosses genre barriers without ever losing its definition, suitable for parties or headphones contemplation, but never as background.  Ghost Town Road announces a bold new era for Smallpools, while also a spiritual heir to the 2013 EP that started it all. “I feel like that was a definitive body of work, we were dialed in,” Scanlon muses. “With this project, we’re dialed back in.” Kamerman views it less like a sequel and more like a franchise reboot – “The other music exists and you’re free to revisit it,” he states. “But we’re back and we mean it.”